# GovSchema

> GovSchema is the trusted, versioned, machine-readable contract that lets AI agents understand, validate, and safely prepare government forms and workflows — without guessing from webpages, HTML, or PDFs. Open-source and independent: it describes and verifies government processes; it does not submit them.

GovSchema is an independent, open-source standards foundation. It is not a government entity and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting on behalf of any government. GovSchema publishes standards; it does not fill out forms or transact with government services on anyone's behalf.

## Resources

- [Live demo](https://govschema.org/demo): Watch a schema-driven agent conduct a real interview: every question, validation rule, and eligibility check is read from a live GovSchema registry entry.
- [Documentation](https://govschema.org/docs): Documentation for the GovSchema standard: quickstart, the schema format, identifiers and versioning, field types, and verification practices.
- [Introduction](https://govschema.org/docs/introduction): Introduction to the GovSchema standard: a runnable quickstart, the core concepts, and the document envelope every conforming schema shares.
- [Specification](https://govschema.org/docs/specification): The GovSchema specification: version status and an overview of the three chapters — schema format, identifiers & versioning, and field types & validation.
- [Schema format](https://govschema.org/docs/specification/schema-format): The GovSchema document format: one JSON object describing a government form, with a fixed envelope of identity, provenance, verification, fields, and flow.
- [Identifiers & versioning](https://govschema.org/docs/specification/identifiers-versioning): How GovSchema names a process (the GSID), maps it to a registry path, and versions documents with semantic versioning and an immutable, append-only history.
- [Field types & validation](https://govschema.org/docs/specification/field-types): The GovSchema field model: machine id, plain-language label, supported types, the JSON Schema validation subset, enumerated options, and file fields.
- [Schema registry](https://govschema.org/registry): Search and filter every published GovSchema schema by jurisdiction, category, and status. Machine-readable catalog at registry/index.json; every entry resolves to a generated reference page.
- [How the registry works](https://govschema.org/docs/registry): How the GovSchema registry is laid out on disk, how ids and versions map to deterministic paths, the machine-readable catalog at registry/index.json, and how to read verification status.
- [Verification](https://govschema.org/docs/verification): What verification means in GovSchema: the lifecycle status, the record every schema carries, and the practices confirming it matches its live source.
- [About](https://govschema.org/about): GovSchema is an independent, open-source standards foundation publishing schemas and verification practices agents and the people they act for can trust.
- [Community](https://govschema.org/community): How to propose a schema, correct or re-verify one, or help shape the specification: contribution paths, ground rules, and the PR workflow.
- [Updates](https://govschema.org/updates): What's shipped on the GovSchema specification, registry, and site, in order — with an RSS feed so you can follow without checking back.
- [Registry catalog (registry/index.json)](https://govschema.org/registry/index.json): Machine-readable catalog of every published schema: one JSON record per id with jurisdiction, category, process type, status, all published versions, and the path to its schema.json — the registry entry point for agents.
- [Canonical meta-schema (JSON Schema)](https://govschema.org/spec/v0.1/govschema.schema.json): The v0.1 JSON Schema every published GovSchema document conforms to.
- [Spec & registry source (GitHub)](https://github.com/hellogov-ai/govschema): The canonical, versioned specification and registry repository.
- [RSS feed](https://govschema.org/rss.xml): The Updates changelog as an RSS 2.0 feed.

## Full content

- [llms-full.txt](https://govschema.org/llms-full.txt): this site's complete marketing and documentation content in Markdown.